Jenny Visser-Hooft (née Jkvr Jeannette Hooft 18 June 1888,

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- 16 September 1939, Ankara) was a Dutch traveler, mountaineer, and writer known for the flora and fauna research she did in the 1920s with her husband,

Philips Christiaan Visser Philips Christiaan Visser (May 8, 1882 – May 3, 1955) was a Dutch geographer, explorer, mountaineer, diplomat and glaciologist. Visser was mostly known for his travel reports and lectures about his expeditions to the Karakoram Mountains in the f ...

, in Pakistan and India's Karakorum Glaciers region. Visser-Hooft was the daughter of Jhr Maurits Wijnand Hendrik Hooft and Jeannette Henriëtte Grader van der Maas, and was a descendant of

P.C. Hooft Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (16 March 1581 – 21 May 1647) - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature, literature. Lif ...

.Hooft, Jeanette
at the P.C. Hooft Family Tree website She married the geographer and diplomat Philips Visser (1882-1955) in 1912 in The Hague. She was a member of the

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, and of the

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, as well as serving as Vice-President of the Ladies' Alpine Club. Her archives and bust, sculpted by , are held by the Royal Tropical Institute, while her expeditionary negatives and photographs are located at the Tropenmuseum.

Selected works

*''Among the Kara-Korum Glaciers in 1925 (1926)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Visser-Hooft, Jenny 1888 births 1939 deaths Female travelers Dutch mountain climbers 20th-century Dutch writers Dutch women writers 20th-century women writers Dutch expatriates in the United Kingdom